Mother and child identification means



June 23, 1925. 1,543,270

J. v. ABRONSKI MOTHER AND CHILD IDENTIFICATION MEANS Filed Feb. 25, 1921INVENTOR WITH E88 ATTORNEY Patented June 23, 1925.

. UNITED 7 STATES MOTHER AND CHILD IDENTIFICATION MEANs.' f

Application filed February 25, 1921. Serial No. 447,762.

To all whom-it ma concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN V. ABRoNsKI, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new, and usefulImprovements in Mother and Child Identification Means, of which thefollowing is a specification. V g

The object of my present invention is the provision of means calculatedto absolutely identify an infant with its mother from the time of birthwith a view to precluding, confusion among infants born in hospitalswhere the infants are ordinarily kept in one room and away from I theirrespective mothers except at feeding times. 7

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in theimprovement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed. In theaccompanying drawings, forming part hereof I Figure 1 comprehends acouple of 1dent1- fication devices made in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a view taken longitud nally through one of thesealscomprised in the devices. t I

Figure 3 is a perspective showing one sealing tube as it appearsprecedent to being crimped. V

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all ofthe views of the drawings. V In the best practical embodiment of myinvention of which I am cognizant two of the devices are employed for amother and her child. The said devices are identical in characteristicswith the exception that when deemed expedient the cable of the infantdevice may be made shorter thanthe cable of the mother device. This,however,

is not of the essence of my invention inasmuch as the cables mayoriginally be of the same length without affecting the invention asclaimed. In addition to a cable 1 which may be made of chain or otherappropriate material, each device comprises a disk and two sleevesnumbered 3 and 4, respectively.

In accordance with the scheme of my invention, immediately after amother gives birth to a child one of the devices shown in Figure 1 isapplied to the neck, leg or arm of the mother, and the other device isapplied to the neck, leg or arm of the infant. In each case after thecable 1 is passed for instance around the neck of the mother or infant,as the case may be, the tubular or sleeve like seal 4 is appropriatelypositioned onthe'la'pped end portions of the cable, after which the seal4 issubjected to the pressure of an appropriate instrument and iscrimpled as indicate'd by 5, if deemed necessary, so'asto "precludedisconnection of the cable from the neck-of the mother or infantwithoutmaking itapparent that the infant has been tampered with.

The seal 3 of eaclrdevice may be and preferably is'applied and subjectedto pressure in the same manner as the seal 4. In each device it will beappreciated thatthe seal 3 serves to retain the disk 2 in the bight of aloop formed of the cable 1, the cable 1 being passed through an aperture6 in the disk, and movement of the disk on the cable being limited bythe seal 3. This confinement of the disk 2 in a very short bight portionof the cable 1 contributes to averting the possibility of the disk 2being surrepticonnectionof 'the'device" to the mother or the tiouslyremoved from the cable and replaced by another disk without thesubstitution being made readily apparent by disfigurement or mutilationof the bight portionof the cable. The practical advantage of this willbe better appreciated when it is stated that the tags of a couple orpair of the devices bear identical numbers or other identical symbolsso'that the identity of the infant with the mother and'vice versa, maybe established at the time of birth and thereafter maintained withoutliability of such identification being destroyed.

It will be apparent from the foregoing that when a couple of my novelidentification devices are put into use in the manner described there isabsolutely no liability of a strange infant being foisted on a mother asher own infant. This is due to the fact that when a couple of my noveldevices are secured on a mother and her child in the manner describedthere is no liability of the devices being casually separated from themother and child and no liability of either disk 2 being purposelydetached from the cable 1 without the removal of the disk and thesubstitution of another disk being manifest.

In case of twins, two sets of symbols will be used, the mother beingtagged with two different symbols, and each twin being tagged with asimilar symbol as that worn by the mother.

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While I prefer to employ the construction herein illustrated anddescribed I Would have it distinctly understood that it is Within thepurview of my invention to construct the devices in any manner c'aiculated to preclude removal of thecable from a mother or child, or theremoval of either disk from its cable and the, substitution of anotherdisk Without mutilation of the devices to such an extent as to make thesubstitution apparent.

Having described my invention, hat I claim and desire to secure byLetters- Patent, is V I V 1. Means for identifying a mother With herinfant and vice versa from the birth of the infant, comprising tWodevices, each de- ,,vice being made up of a disk having near its edge anaperture, a chain passed through the aperture of the disk, a seal sleevereceiving the stretches of the chain and arranged adjacent to the edgeof the disk and crimped at intervals in its length, and a second sealsleeve receiving the end portions of the chain and crimped at intervalsin its length. I

2. lvieans for identifying a mother With her infant and vice versa fromthe birth of the infant, comprising two devices, each de- Vice beingmade upof a disk bearing a symbol and having adjacent to its edge anaperture, a cable passed through said aperture" and receiving an edgeportion of the disk in a bight portion of the cable, means permanentlyfastening together the end portions of the cable, and a sleeve sealreceiving the stretches of the cable and arranged immediately adjacentto the edge of the disk and peri'nanently fastened of itself to thecable whereby movement of said sleeve relative to the diskis precluded.

In testimony whereof I atfii; my signature.

JOHN V. ABRONSKI.

